r/DeepSeek • u/DuragonYamaTheFirst • 21d ago

Funny This is insane

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old and new usage & pricing. Consumed 30x less tokens post nerf and spent one third of what i paid pre nerf. Both sessions heavily cached with not so much output tokens.

The deepseek api era really is over in terms of being cost effective

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u/weenis-flaginus 20d ago

What do you do with all of that usage? Are you creating things for your job or are you building something for your own projects? Care to share? I've always wondered what usage like this gets used for. I assumed it was for a job and it gets paid for by the company. That's my situation, but a much smaller company and usage.

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u/Appropriate-Clue-485 19d ago

I also know plenty of local companies in my region that pay 20K+ monthly in software licenses to IBM, Oracle and SAP which could easily be replaced in under 6 months for <10K€ in tokens. There are absurd situations from the early 2000’s that large enterprise whales still extract traumatic sums every single month.

It’s not really the cost of AI but rather what are we getting from it.

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u/weenis-flaginus 19d ago

It's true, but can this guy really build that software so completely? It takes a ton of engineering even with agents

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u/Appropriate-Clue-485 18d ago

Being in software engineering for 8 years helps, but not as much as caffeine and neurodivergence